Böcker av Sergio O. Serna-Saldivar

This book provides a technical review of snack foods. Emphasis is made in flavored salty snacks commonly used as finger foods including popcorn, wheat-based snacks (crispbreads, pretzels, crackers), lime-cooked maize products (tortilla chips), potato chips, peanuts, almonds, and snacks from fruits/vegetables, milk, animal and marine sources.

Focusing on postharvest management and the wide array of industrial processes used to manufacture foods, this book provides information about the physicochemical and nutritional properties of cereals and their products. It covers the chemical and physical grain properties of various types of cereals and cereal-based products.